Understanding homicide trends : the social context of a homicide epidemic / / Benjamin Pearson-Nelson
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| Autore: |
Pearson-Nelson Benjamin <1978->
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| Titolo: |
Understanding homicide trends : the social context of a homicide epidemic / / Benjamin Pearson-Nelson
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (201 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 364.1520973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Homicide - United States |
| Drug abuse and crime - United States | |
| Population density - United States | |
| Cocaine abuse - United States | |
| Crime forecasting - United States | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-187) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- An Epidemic of Violence: U.S. Homicide Trends -- The Homicide Epidemic: Crafting a Theoretical Framework -- What We Know about the Homicide Epidemic and Where We Go From Here -- The Analytical Approach to the Homicide Epidemic: Measuring Variables and Statistical Modeling -- The Social Context of Major Cities and Tests on the Epidemic Parameters -- The Homicide Epidemic: What We Have Learned and the Next Stage of Inquiry -- Appendices -- References -- Index. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Pearson-Nelson looks at the homicide epidemic of the late 1980s and early 1990s. His approach draws on epidemiological and sociological perspectives focused on the factors, positive and negative, related to the spread of the epidemic through urban areas. Key questions include: why did some cities experience the epidemic, while others did not? What variables affected the intensity and duration of the epidemic within cities? Pearson-Nelson finds that population density is the single most important variable. A measure of cocaine availability significantly affected the absolute magnitude of the epidemic; however, the findings indicate that greater cocaine availability actually reduced the magnitude of the epidemic. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Understanding homicide trends |
| ISBN: | 1-59332-353-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910970148903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)